[crowcroft]

For most people I agree.

When AWS was first getting big though they solved genuine, really hard problems for a lot of organisations that were large or growing quickly. NVME drives didn't exist, SSDs were expensive and a lot of servers still had spinning SAS drives – A little box with some ram and some NVME drives didn't scale as ridiculously far as they do now.

I do think as computers keep getting faster and smaller the number of use cases that need a 'cloud' shrink very quickly though.

[benterix]

The problem is, the larger your organization is, the more difficult is to break free from vendor lock-in.